Audio Book Description:
This important and timely book deliverswa startling analysis ofthe clash of faith and reason in today`s world. Harris offers a vivid historical tourof mankind`s willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when thosebeliefs are used to justifyharmful behavior and sometimesheinous crimes. He asserts thatin the shadow of weapons of mass destruction, we can no longer tolerate views that pitone true god against another, the realperil of fundamentalism. While warning against the encroachment ot organized religion upon world politics. Harris also draws on new evidence fromneuroscience and insights from philosophy to explore spirituality as a biological, brain-based need. He calls on us to take a secular humanisticapproach to solving the problems of thisworld.
